Neil Malhotra

University of Pennsylvania Oﬃce: (215) 898-7641 Department of Political Science Mobile: (408) 772-7969 208 S. 37th Street, Room 217 Email: [email protected] Philadelphia, PA 19104-6215 Homepage: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/∼neilmal

Employment Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylva- nia, 2010-present Associate Professor (secondary appointment), The Wharton School, University of Penn- sylvania, 2010-present Associate Professor (secondary appointment), Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-present

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, 2008-2010 Assistant Professor (by courtesy), Department of Political Science, Stanford University, 2008-2010 Analyst, Investment Banking Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co., 2002-2003

Education Stanford University Ph.D., Political Science (2008) M.A., Political Science (2005) Melvin & Joan Lane Graduate Fellow, 2003-2008 Yale University B.A., summa cum laude, Economics (2002) Phi Beta Kappa Distinction in the Major

Peer-Reviewed Publications 31. Harbridge, Laurel, and Neil Malhotra. In press. “Electoral Incentives and Partisan Conﬂict in Congress: Evidence from Survey Experiments.” American Journal of Political Science. 30. Malhotra, Neil, and Alexander M. Tahk. In press. “Speciﬁcation Issues in Assessing the Moderating Role of Issue Importance: A Comment on Grynaviski and Corrigan.” Political Analysis. Neil Malhotra 2

29. Meredith, Marc, and Neil Malhotra. In press. “Convenience Voting Can Change Election Outcomes.” Election Law Journal. 28. Malhotra, Neil, Melissa R. Michelson, Todd Rogers, and Ali Adam Valenzuela. In press. “Text Messages as Mobilization Tools: The Conditional Effects of Habitual Voting and Election Salience.” American Politics Research. 27. Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons, and Neil Malhotra. In press. “The Effect of Sex of Child on Traditional Gender Roles: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” Social Forces. 26. Malhotra, Neil, and Elizabeth Popp. In press. “Bridging Partisan Divisions over Anti-Terrorism Policies: The Role of Threat Perceptions.” Political Research Quarterly. 25. Healy, Andrew, and Neil Malhotra. 2010. “Random Events, Economic Losses, and Retrospective Voting: Implications for Democratic Competence.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 5(2): 193-208. 24. Healy, Andrew J., Neil Malhotra, and Cecilia Hyunjung Mo. 2010. “Irrelevant Events Affect Voters’ Evaluations of Government Performance.” Proceedings of the Na- tional Academy of Sciences. 107(29): 12804-12809. 23. Malhotra, Neil, and Yotam Margalit. 2010. “Short-Term Communication Effects or Longstanding Dispositions? The Public’s Response to the Financial Crisis of 2008.” Journal of Politics. 72(3): 852-867. 22. Jessee, Stephen, and Neil Malhotra. 2010. “Are Congressional Leaders Middlepersons or Extremists? Yes.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 35(3): 361-392. 21. Fair, C. Christine, Neil Malhotra, and Jacob N. Shapiro. 2010. “Islam, Militancy and Politics in Pakistan: Insights from a National Sample.” Terrorism and Political Violence. 22(4): 495-521. 20. Gerber, Alan S., Neil Malhotra, Conor M. Dowling, and David Doherty. 2010. “Publication Bias in Two Political Behavior Literatures.” American Politics Research. 38(4): 591-613. 19. Healy, Andrew, and Neil Malhotra. 2009. “Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy.” American Political Science Review. 103(3): 387-406. 18. Elis, Roy, Neil Malhotra, and Marc Meredith. 2009. “Apportionment Cycles as Natural Experiments.” Political Analysis. 17(4): 358-376. 17. Malhotra, Neil, Jon A. Krosnick, and Randall K. Thomas. 2009. “Optimal Design of Branching Questions to Measure Bipolar Constructs.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 73(2): 304-324. 16. Malhotra, Neil. 2009. “Order Effects in Complex and Simple Tasks.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 73(1): 180-98. Neil Malhotra 3

15. Malhotra, Neil, and Alexander G. Kuo. 2009. “Emotions as Moderators of Informa- tion Cue Use: Citizen Attitudes towards Hurricane Katrina.” American Politics Research. 37(2): 301-326. 14. Malhotra, Neil, and Alexander G. Kuo. 2008. “Attributing Blame: The Public’s Response to Hurricane Katrina.” Journal of Politics. 70(1): 120-135. 13. Malhotra, Neil, and Matthew E. Carnes. 2008. “Political Stability under Uncertainty: Applying Bounded Rationality to the Study of Governance and Civil Conflict.” British Journal of Political Science. 38(1): 45-64. 12. Malhotra, Neil. 2008. “Completion Time and Response Order Effects in Web Sur- veys.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 72(5): 914-934. 11. Gerber, Alan, and Neil Malhotra. 2008. “Do Statistical Reporting Standards Af- fect What Is Published? Publication Bias in Two Leading Political Science Journals.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 3(3): 313-326. 10. Malhotra, Neil. 2008. “Disentangling the Relationship between Legislative Profes- sionalism and Government Spending.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 33(3): 387-414. 9. Malhotra, Neil. 2008. “The Impact of Public Financing on Electoral Competition: Evidence from Arizona and Maine.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly. 8(3): 263-281. 8. Gerber, Alan S., and Neil Malhotra. 2008. “Publication Incentives and Empirical Research: Do Reporting Standards Distort the Published Results?” Sociological Methods and Research. 37(1): 3-30. 7. Malhotra, Neil. 2008. “Partisan Polarization and Blame Attribution in a Federal System: The Case of Hurricane Katrina.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 38(4): 651-670. 6. Chen, Jowei, and Neil Malhotra. 2007. “The Law of k/n: The Effect of Chamber Size on Government Spending in Bicameral Legislatures.” American Political Science Review. 101(4): 657-676. 5. Malhotra, Neil, and Jon A. Krosnick. 2007. “The Effect of Survey Mode and Sampling on Inferences about Political Attitudes and Behavior: Comparing the 2000 and 2004 ANES to Internet Surveys with Non-Probability Samples.” Political Analysis. 15(3): 286-323. 4. Malhotra, Neil, and Jon A. Krosnick. 2007. “Procedures for Updating Classifica- tion Systems: A Study of Biotechnology and the Standard Occupational Classification System.” Journal of Official Statistics. 23(3): 409-432. 3. Malhotra, Neil, and Jon A. Krosnick. 2007. “Retrospective and Prospective Perfor- mance Assessments during the 2004 Election Campaign: Tests of Mediation and News Media Priming.” Political Behavior. 29(2): 249-278. Neil Malhotra 4

2. Malhotra, Neil, and Connor Raso. 2007. “Racial Representation and U.S. Senate Apportionment.” Social Science Quarterly. 88(4): 1038-1048. 1. Malhotra, Neil. 2006. “Government Growth and Professionalism in U.S. State Legis- latures.” Legislative Studies Quarterly. 31(4): 563-584.

Other Publications 5. Stuckey, Heather L., Neil Malhotra, Barbara A. Sims, and Marian R. Walters. 2009. “Analyzing the Cost-Eﬀectiveness of Using Return Receipt and Address Corrections in Mail Surveys.” Survey Practice. June. 4. Malhotra, Neil, and Yotam Margalit. 2009. “Anti-Semitism and the Economic Crisis.” Boston Review. May/June. 3. Malhotra, Neil. “Internet Polls.” 2008. Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior. Ed. Kenneth F. Warren. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 325-326. 2. Malhotra, Neil. “Bandwagon Eﬀect.” 2008. Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elec- tions, and Electoral Behavior. Ed. Kenneth F. Warren. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 58-59. 1. Malhotra, Neil, Jon A. Krosnick, and Edward Haertel. 2007. “The Psychometric Properties of the GSS Wordsum Vocabulary Test.” 2007. General Social Survey Method- ological Report MR111.

Awards MBA Class of 1969 Faculty Scholar (2009-2010) Distinction for Outstanding Teaching, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2008-2009) Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the Best Article in Legislative Studies Quarterly (2008) Westview Press Award for Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (2007) John Sullivan Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior Section (2007) First Prize, Student Paper Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research (Paciﬁc Chapter) (2007) Neil Malhotra 5

Grants/Fellowships Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University (2008-2009) (declined) Timeshare Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS) (2007): “Threat Perceptions and Political Attitudes on Counter-Terrorism Measures” (with Elizabeth Popp) National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (2007): “The Effect of Polls on Political Behavior” Prestage-Cook Travel Award, Southern Political Science Association (2007) Timeshare Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS) (2006): “Sources of Blame Attri- bution: Citizen Attitudes Towards Public Officials after 9/11” (with Alexander G. Kuo) Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Stanford University (2006): “The Effect of Po- litical Urban Legends on Policy Attitudes about Tort Reform and Welfare” Timeshare Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS) (2006): “Partisan Bias and Blame Attribution: Citizen Attitudes towards the Government Response to Hurricane Katrina” (with Alexander G. Kuo) Bud Roper Fellowship, American Association of Public Opinion Research (2005) American Political Science Association Travel Grant (2005) Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) (2005): “Civic Education and Deliberative Democracy” (with James Fishkin and Alice Siu)

Invited Talks 2007-2008: Binghamton University, Georgetown University, University of Pennsylva- nia, Vanderbilt University, Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University, Yale University, Northwestern University, University of California-Merced, University of California-Berkeley, John F. Kennedy School of Government (Harvard University), Uni- versity of Michigan 2008-2009: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (American Politics Conference), Uni- versity of California-San Diego (WECS Conference), Loyola Marymount University, Yale University (CSAP Conference) 2009-2010: Harris School of Public Policy (University of Chicago), University of California- Los Angeles, University of Pennsylvania, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Merced (Politics of Federal Spending Conference) 2010-2011: University of Rochester (Wallis Conference), University of Pittsburgh, Columbia University, Heidelberg University (Politics of Crisis Conference), Cornell University, Prince- ton University Neil Malhotra 6

Conference Participation Presenter American Political Science Association: 2005-2011 Midwest Political Science Association: 2005-2011 Southern Political Science Association: 2008 Western Political Science Association: 2010 American Association for Public Opinion Research: 2005, 2007-2009 Paciﬁc Association for Public Opinion Research: 2005, 2007

Chair/Discussant American Political Science Association: 2007-2008, 2010-2011 Midwest Political Science Association: 2007-2008, 2010-2011 State Politics and Policy Conference: 2010

Reviewer American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, American Pol- itics Research, American Review of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Eco- nomics and Politics, Field Methods, Governance, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, International Studies Perspectives, Journal of Oﬃcial Statistics, Journal of Politics, Journal of Public Economics, Legislative Studies Quarterly, National Science Foundation, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Public Opinion Quarterly, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Science, Sociological Methods and Research, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, Time- share Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS), W.W. Norton

Teaching University of Pennsylvania PhD: American Political Behavior Field Seminar (2011) Undergraduate: Analyzing the Political World (2011) Undergraduate: Culture Wars in Politics (2011)

Stanford University MBA: Ethics in Management (2009-2010) MBA: Non-Market Strategy (2009-2010)

Dissertation Committees Cecilia Mo (Pol. Economy, Graduate School of Business), Reading Committee (Co-Chair) Christopher Paik (Pol. Economy, Graduate School of Business), Reading Committee Neil Malhotra 7

Alexander Tahk (Department of Political Science), Oral Examination Committee (Chair) Brian Lukoﬀ (School of Education), Oral Examination Committee (Chair) Alice Siu (Department of Communication), Oral Examination Committee (Chair) Lori Gauthier (Department of Communication), Oral Examination Committee (Chair) Curtis Cobb (Department of Sociology), Oral Examination Committee (Chair) Sonya Zak (Marketing, Graduate School of Business), Oral Examination Committee

University and Disciplinary Service University of Pennsylvania Graduate Executive Committee (2010-2011) Graduate Admissions Committee (2010-2011) Ad-Hoc Personnel Committee (2011)

Stanford University Faculty Advisor, Peru Study Trip (December 2009) Faculty Advisor, Scandinavia Study Trip (March 2010) Co-Coordinator, Political Economy Seminar (2008-2010)

Disciplinary Editorial Board, Legislative Studies Quarterly (2011-2013) Award Committee (chair), Best Paper Award, Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Be- havior Section, American Political Science Association (2010) Award Committee, Best Paper Award, Political Psychology Section, American Political Science Association (2010) Award Committee, Jewell-Loewenberg Award, Legislative Studies Section, American Po- litical Science Association (2009)

Consulting SeaWeb (2009) Early Voting Information Center (2009) Bureau of Labor Statistics (2004-2005) National Opinion Research Corporation (2004-2005)

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